Bio

Janice Davis brings more than 30 years of corporate experience to her practice, striving to create practical solutions for her clients’ contractual relationships and challenges. Janice advises on a variety of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, divestitures, software license agreements, corporate financing, private placements, alliance arrangements, reorganizations, recapitalizations, management and leveraged buy-outs, venture capital investments, and securities law compliance. In her M&A practice, Janice represents public and private companies, as well as private equity firms, in diverse cross-border and domestic transactions. Janice also has a particular interest in guiding clients through the formation and financing of early stage and emerging growth companies. She routinely advises corporate clients and other entities on governance, fiduciary duties, and change of control and related matters. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Janice was a partner at another global law firm, where she served as co-chair of its technology transactions department. While there, she gained a unique perspective on legal matters as a result of her work on a part-time seconded basis at a portfolio company of one of that firm’s private equity firm clients, handling all board matters, integrating and organizing the outside legal teams, negotiating all contracts, and managing all insurance risk matters. She was also seconded at one of the top accounting firms in the United States, where she saw through all corporate matters, M&A transactions, and negotiated more than 250 contracts on behalf of its consulting division.